My experience with zoom has been on linux.

I hate the fact that it requires you to install the client for it to work.

The client randomly spikes in cpu usage while running in the background. Multiple times I've also had this issue where I'll try to right click the zoom icon in the system tray and quit zoom, causing it to hang and reach 100% cpu usage on one core.

I also don't like that on clicking on a zoom video call link sometimes the browser to client redirect works but sometimes it doesn't and you need to then go back and click the link again.

For me, Google meet works much better.

Some of the major problems: 10% of my CPU and ~1GB memory by simply launching the application on linux. Absolutely ridiculous. Can't remove passwords from my personal meetings, controls are sluggish as hell, like I'll click to either turn on or off my camera and have to wait for 3-4 seconds for it to actually do anything. Multiple smaller problems piled on the side as well.

People love to shit on Skype but even the web version of Skype behaves better than zoom for me. Google meet, Skype, meet.jit.si - I take any of those over zoom.

If I had it my way, I’d just use calendar invites and FaceTime. The quality is 10x everything else.

Have you tried meet.jit.si? The quality is pretty bad but it's way easier to use than zoom which kind of has a reputation for it. I got my dad set up with jitsi in hardly a minute whereas zoom took around 10 minutes

Discord is somehow the best video conferencing tool I've ever used.